Could it really hurt for Apple to just ask me how I want my iPod configured? I mean, seriously, I’m an adult. I can decide this stuff for myself.
Grr.
Moe Lane
PS: I’d like to meet the software person who figured out that you can make people update the software by making it impossible to sync the iPod with iTunes until you do. And by ‘meet’ I mean ‘yell at.’
I have developed a deep and abiding hatred of Apple products.
They “just work”.
Until they don’t.
At which point it becomes clear that failure was never considered to be possible, and work-arounds are few and far between.
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When there’s a problem with my Android tablet or phone, it generally takes me less than 15 minutes to fix.
The Apple products the female members of my household use? Those take hours to get them to work right.
And my Android systems haven’t had nearly the problems.
Reason 1 through 1000 of why I don’t buy Apple products.
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“It just works” no, “It just works like Apple thinks it should work, not necessarily how you want it to work”.
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I do like it for my wife, her iPhone and iPad work well enough, for her.
Apple have the idea that “Complexity can only be reduced so far, after that you’re just shuffling it around”… which is pretty obvious ..
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Apple set the defaults to align with what 80% of their market (largely kids/young-adults) want, and then .. bury the configurations deep so they don’t have to answer “what did you change?” questions.
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For those 80%, it works great, which is why there aren’t “easy to find fixes” online .. because “it works great”.
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For those of us who are not in that 80%, it is *annoying* to dig out the settings that make the device behave the way we want, but usually it’s in there .. somewhere.
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Mew
What I like about the iPhone (and Macbook) gear is I don’t get asked “what happened to my {stuff}?” every time there’s an upgrade… I just make sure the first setting I change is “auto upgrade NO”.
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Mew